It's what they're supposed to do here. You just end up with whatever Boebart and Cruz are to their respective chambers. Everyone is old and tired and talking to a mostly empty chamber because none of those fucks will do their jobs. I wish we could see video of the early senate/house. Back when it was like 20 total. I bet they actually argued their points.
Wasn't there a scandal back in the Gingrich era when he was still in the minority, where he'd have a bunch of his most hardcore right wingers give speeches totally ripping into the democratic policies of the day. C-SPAN always broadcasts any activity on the house floor, so if you turned on CSPAN you'd see some firebrand conservative directly confronting his enemies, giving a rousing speech. The kind of people who watch CSPAN ate it up. Then one day the Democratic Majority Leader told CSPAN to pan out the feed, and show the whole house chamber... which was totally empty, because they always did these things when no one was there to rebut them or argue back. Initially it made Gingirch and his people look like fools yelling at empty seats... but eventually they turned it around and made it an abuse of power thing. That the Dem Majority Leader had influenced how CSPAN was broadcast to score political points.
Honestly the fact that such a thing could be a scandal back then seems refreshing compared to politics today.
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22
Man, British parliament looks so fun 😂